Spelling Bee May 17, 2021 answers
All accepted words for today's NYT Spelling Bee, with the pangram revealed, point totals, and progress thresholds for each rank.
Today's letter set · Center: C
Puzzle stats
Total words
34
Total points
163
Pangrams
2
Genius score
114
Center letter
C
Pangrams
Uses all 7 letters
- BELLYACHE
- BELLYACHE
Rank thresholds
Beginner
0 pts
0%
Good Start
3 pts
2%
Moving Up
8 pts
5%
Good
13 pts
8%
Solid
24 pts
15%
Nice
40 pts
25%
Great
65 pts
40%
Amazing
81 pts
50%
Genius
114 pts
70%
Queen Bee
163 pts
100%
All accepted words
- abbacy
- ache
- achy
- beach
- beachy
- beech
- belch
- bellyache
- bellyache
- bleach
- blech
- cabal
- cabala
- cabby
- cable
- cache
- call
- calla
- callable
- celeb
- cell
- challah
- clay
- clayey
- cycle
- each
- lace
- lacy
- leach
- lech
- leech
- lychee
- yecch
- yech
About this puzzle
The NYT Spelling Bee for Monday, May 17, 2021 uses the seven letters A, B, C, E, H, L, Y, with C as the center letter that must appear in every word.
Today's puzzle has 34 accepted words for a total of 163 points. To reach Genius rank, players need 114 points — about 70% of the total. The full Queen Bee score requires every word.
This puzzle has 2 pangrams — words that use all seven letters. Each pangram earns a 7-point bonus on top of its regular score.